The Washington Post

We interviewed experts in the fields of future manufacturing, logistics, and retail to present a view of what’s next for AT&T in a sponsored article in The Washington Post. We crafted the article to tie in with an interactive 360 feature that we also wrote.

No longer just a pipe dream of logistics managers and futurists, remote-controlled, connected and autonomous trucks are now in development.

Among the companies developing the technology behind them is Starsky Robotics, based in San Francisco. The company’s chief executive officers, Stefan Seltz-Axmacher, believes autonomous trucking could benefit much more than just the trucking industry. “This, single-handedly, could [power most] U.S. economic growth for a year or two,” he says.